Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-17
LOCAL BREYITIEs.

w. Baker, OF this city, Notary Public.
Nine carloads of tea and silk went East
by special train from San Francisco Satur-
day night.
Friends of Robert c. Montgomery will
be grieved to hear that he is very danger
ously ill at the Capital Hotel.
Expert Hopper, of Sacramento, is going
through the books of the county officers at
Oroville. He will expert back for couple
of years.
The following amounts were paid into
the State Treasury Saturday by County
Treasurers Sacramento, $120,7S1 10 /;
Mariposa, Sl0,544.
Sixty carloads of ice, from the Boca ice
belt, arrived here Saturday night. and as
many more came last night, and were for
warded to cities and towns in every direc-
ton.
The Elk Grove Brass Band will give a
masquerade ball at Toronto Hall in that
place on Friday evening, the 2Sth instant,
and invite their Sacramento friends to at
| tend
1t is reported that E. A. Beardslee will
shortly resign the position of manager of
the Western Union Telegraph office in this
city, to accept similar position with the
Postal Telegraph Company.
Albert Bowen. an old man, formerly a
resident of Sacramento, but latterly resid-
ing elsewhere, came to the city few days
ago, seriously i'll and penniless. Yesterday
he was sent to the County Hospital.
A work train with men and material has
been forwarded from Blue Canyon to Red
Bluff, to at once commence there the con-
struction of big round house for the
Southern Pacific Company's engines.
The case of Fanny Wheel, charged with
the murder of Jacob Klein, will come up
for trial in Department Two of the Superior
Court this morning, Judge Wilson, of San
Francisco, sitting for Judge Van Fleet.
E. j. Kennedy, who was arrested for rob-
bling the mails at the Sacramento Post
| office, has been by United States Commits
sioner Sawyer, of San Francisco, admitted
to bail in the sum of 81 900, and is at lib
erty.
A member of the Legislature inquiries
what postage is required in sending official
reports through the mails. They come I'M
der the head of third-class matter, one cent
for each two ounces or fractional part
| thereof.
The Knights of Pythias who went over
to Davisville Friday night to attend the
| installation of the officers elect of Golden
Seal Lodge of that place, returned Saturday
morning and reported the enjoyment of
very pleasant visit.
The largest audience that has for weeks
gathered at the Pavilion Rink assembled
Saturday evening, and was delighted with
the graceful and difficult movements ex-
ecuted by Americas champion roller
skater, Professor B. F. Kern.
E. w. Maslin, Secretary of the State
Board of Equalization, has declined the
appointment of Deputy Collector of the
Port of San Francisco, recently rendered
/ him, the former situation-although the
salary is much smaller-suiting him better.
The alarm of fire from box %, at $50 A.
NJ. yesterday, was caused by the discovery
that the roof of Barney Donahue's house,
on NJ street, between Third and Fourth,
| had become ignited from the chimney.
The fire was put out before much damage
had been done.
An attempt was made Saturday night to
rob the Southern Pacific Company's office
at Marysville. The burglars removed the
outer door of the safe, and bursted the COM
bination of the inner door, but had to leave
without booty, the safe succeeding in
standing them of"
| Fourteen carloads of stock came down
from Edgewood yesterday, most of it en-
route to San Francisco, being the first ship
ment from the extreme end of the Califor-
mia and Oregon Railroad. There also came
| this morning "a carloads from Reno for
the same destination.
B. F. Harnish, of Woodland, has sub
mitted to the people of that place plan
| for a system of sewerage, of which the
town stands in need. He offers, in case
other citizens benefited will contribute
S. 900, to give the other $4,000 necessary
for the construction of the system.
The Marysville appeal of yesterday has
| the following piece of miXedneSS The
entire surface of one field in Suffer county
yesterday afternoon was covered with
white geese, and toward evening the focks
made the skies black in many places as
they moved to the bottom lands"
II. J. w. Dam, who was Executive Secre-
! tary TO Governor Stoneman, was given
grand farewell banquet by the Bohemian
Club of San Francisco in their high jinks"
HAL Saturday evening. Mr.. Dam is about
to leave for New York City to enter the
| fields of literature and journalism.
Justice Devine on Saturday heard the
testimony in the case of James I. Will
Jams, charged with petit larceny, it having
been alleged that he opened letter adj
dressed to another man named Williams
and took money therefrom. The evidence
failed to show any felonious intent, how
ever, and the defendant was discharged.
The smoking car on the Western Pacific
passenger train which left the city for San
| Francisco, yesterday, had attached to it,
experimentally, an apparatus known as
"Mastermans brake equalizer" designed
| to prevent the brakes from being set up so
| tightly as to completely bind the wheels
and cause them to slide along the rails,
| thus fiatteniDg them.
| Yesterday morning, when the o'clock
passenger train for San Francisco reached
fremont it found an empty fruit car. which
| had been standing on the siding, on fire,
| but the crew of freight train which met
| the passenger there put the fire out. 1t is
presumed to have been started, accidentally
or intentionally. by tramps who had slept
in it during the previous night.
| Mrs. Anna Grouse, an elderly lady who
was coming up from San Francisco on the
s o'clock train, Saturday evening. discov-
| cred, after the cars were above Vallejo
| Junction, that her satchel, which she had
| hung up on hook over her seat, had dis
appeared and she did not again get sight of
/ it. The thief obtained by the theft S25 in
money, three checks for baggage, articles
of apparel, etc.
The ladies of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union are circulating for
signatures petition 10 secure the en-
actment of a law by the present Leg
islature, requiring instruction in physiology
and hygiene given IN all schools supported
by public money, which shall give special
prominence to the injurious effects of alco-
holic drinks and narcotics upon the human
system.
| Tom Scott don't propose to let the foot
pads that are infesting the city at this time
get away with his chronometer, so yester-
| day he put it in soak" at the Capital Ho-
tel Tom is an even-tempered individual,
but any reference to that watch" at this
time is fraught with danger to the person
| who speaks of it in his presence. If any
one asks him how he got it out of soak"
his Caledonian blood fairly boils, and he
consigns the questioner to the eternal bow
vows.
Arrived since last report, steamer San
joaquin, No. 4, from San Francisco, with
barge load of general freight and barge load
of lumber for Richards & Knox and the
Sacramento Lumber Company; steamer
d. E. knight, from San Francisco, en- route
for Marysville, with merchandise. Cleared,
steamer San Joaquin, No. 3, for the upper
Sacramento, with merchandise; steamer
San Joacu;n NJ 4 for San Erapcjscn with